On a raucous day in politics, Tucker Carlson added extra gas to the 2024 election hearth by asserting he’s not going to stay on the sidelines.
The ousted Fox News host mentioned he’s launching a present on Twitter.
“Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site. Everybody is allowed here and we think that’s a good thing,” Carlson mentioned in a video on his Twitter feed Tuesday.
“Starting soon we will be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” he added @TuckerCarlson. “See you soon.”
This is a significant coup for Elon Musk, who’s struggling to maintain Twitter related after shopping for it for $44 billion in October.
Musk didn’t have a lot to say, but, about Carlson’s present. He did agree with one other Twitter consumer who identified the social media platform has change into “the world’s number-one podcast platform in LESS than 90 days.” Musk mentioned “Yup” when retweeting that nugget.
Carlson talked about rather a lot concerning the mainstream media in his 3-minute video however mentioned nothing about Fox. “You are being manipulated,” he mentioned of the press.
He did foreshadow extra to come back on Twitter, including: “We’ll be bringing some other things too, which we’ll tell you about, but for now, we’re just grateful to be here.”
Carlson was let go from his lofty perch on the top-rated present on Fox within the wake of the cable community’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion over unproven 2020 voter fraud allegations. His final Fox broadcast was April 21.
There was hypothesis Carslon would bounce to rival conservative platform Newsmax and take over the TV arm of the positioning.
Newsmax did banner the story of Carlson’s new enterprise and reported Carlson would “forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause.” There are extra allegations, but it surely’s clear Fox is in his rear-view mirror and Twitter forward.
It all got here quickly after former President Donald Trump was discovered chargeable for sexually abusing recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment.
Trump is scheduled to be a part of a CNN city corridor discussion board Wednesday night time at 8 in New Hampshire at St. Anselm College. That occasion will likely be moderated by Kaitlan Collins, who famously crossed strains with fired CNN host Don Lemon.
Just one other day within the runup to the 2024 presidential election — one which has Trump topping the GOP subject by a mile.
As for Twitter, Carlson has 6.9 million followers; Musk 139 million.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”